As someone who grew up in Tampa Bay are, I say don’t give in! Just hold a march & skip the bells & whistles that necessitate extensive fundraising & sponsorship. www.advocate.com/politics/tam...

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

Fuck ICE. Cowardly bastards.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I will be on Bluesky all night waiting for someone to repost the coming truth social rant.

Sinclair doesn’t operate in my area. But if somebody wants to start a list of advertisers, I will write some letters.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

How long before he classifies "antifa" as anybody at a protest? We need millions--millions and millions--for No Kings on October 18th. Mark your calendars.

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Good hed from @apnews.com

This one followed every child born in Denmark from 1999-2010, with more than 650,000 children. No association between MMR vaccine and autism was observed. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30831578/

Apparently our cities are hellholes and we need more police except for the ones that they're going to take off the police force to hunt down people painting our houses and tarring our driveways.

My ornery southern mom, who lived to be 101, used to say, “Most of the problems in this world are caused by people who never had to clean up their own messes.” I think about that a lot.

Not all heroes wear capes. www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

More bear chatter, via the JPM desk: “.. It’s rarely a good thing when a company funds purchase of its goods by direct customers, and some are going so far as to say we’re at the end of the build-out phase when companies have to ‘pay people to buy their stuff.’” $NVDA / OpenAI

Another reason to not listen to a guy who has no background in medicine, or any science for that matter: He doesn't even believe himself. If you're asking yourself, "which is it?" the answer is ask your pediatrician.

Trump said today that he heard rumors that people in Cuba are too poor to buy acetaminophen and autism doesn’t exist there. Both of these statements are incorrect. Rumors is a great album by Fleetwood Mac but not a great basis for public health policy.

Every day is a good day to listen to your pediatrician. Do the research, find the best you can in your area, and then listen to them. But yeah, definitely listen today.

having covid news conference flashbacks

Today makes a very good day to listen to people who actually practice public health, pediatrics, and those with expertise in infectious diseases, developmental pediatrics, and/or epidemiology.

Want a rumor? Trump is late for his big autism press conference because he is having a ketchup flinging shit fit. He is enraged Disney stepped on him with their Kimmel announcement. He is inconsolable at the moment.

Cancel culture is POWER. The elites disparage it because they don’t want us to know we have power. We do. A lot.

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Bloomberg is reporting that Kimmel is reinstalled on Tuesday. I'm very happy about that. But I am not resubscribing to Hulu or Disney until I've watched Kimmel for a week or so and am sure he hasn't been somewhat muzzled.

We should talk more about how SCOTUS has very little ability to enforce its decisions and make room in our heads for a Democratic administration to ignore them. That is doubly true if Thomas and Alito retire giving Trump 5 seats on the Court.

The American people are under financial pressure. The job market has stalled. Housing construction has stalled. Beef is at an all time high. We don't have the money or time to help with any of that. But Trump's Argentinian friends? Sure, everything for them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today is the deadline to apply for an opportunity to join the CIDRAP News team. Remember that a remote arrangement is definitely possible. We are hiring a general-assignment writer/editor and an investigative reporter. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/... hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/...

I’m no fancy politics guy, but i’d say any country where you can’t put a man in prison for accepting a literal bag full of cash in exchange for favors from the government is not, in fact, a functioning state.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Today would be a good day for MSNBC to bring back Matt Dowd. @matthewjdowd.bsky.social @msnbc.com

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

Disney vs Kimmel deadline.com/2025/09/ando... #USpol

www.politico.com/news/2025/09... Democrats have say in the matter because any funding deal will need 60 votes in the Senate, where the GOP has a 52-vote majority. Trump on Friday suggested he was not aware of the mathematics. “We have to get Republican votes. That’s all,” Trump claimed.

I'm not military, but my understanding is that it is the duty of a soldier not to follow an illegal order. I think people need to start talking about that, and what happens to soldiers following orders to murder alleged drug runners when there is a law-abiding government in power.

Seconding this for anyone who needs to hear it. My last drink was January 9, 2016, and I got a LOT of mileage out of "I picked the wrong year to quit drinking," which was in no small part my Gen X gallows humor getting me through that brutal year. If you need help, reach out. You're not alone.

As we begin another week, my law firm is litigation 52 voting and election cases in 25 states. We are preparing another half dozen. The fight for free and fair elections is the fight of our time and I am proud that my firm is helping to lead this fight in court.

Executive orders cannot supersede federal law or the constitution. Federal law sets visa fees, including for H-1B visas. And the maximum fee is $4,500, according to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-113). Current State Dept. site: travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

Too many businesses, who funded Trump’s campaign, who bowed to his dictates, believed he would hurt them. Like tariffs, this is going to hit a lot of bottom lines.

Too soon to say if, in this case, cancel culture works. We’ll see how Disney reacts. But we CAN say cancel culture is putting some strong pressure on it.

Americans overestimate the size of minority groups & underestimate the size of majority groups. Americans misestimate group sizes, regardless the type of group being estimated. Median estimates tended to be more accurate than mean, but differences from true estimates were in the same direction.

Oh my god. This musical number by a famous #Disney character is savage. Thank you @colbertlateshow.bsky.social. #Disney #ABC #DonaldTrump and #BrendanCarr won't be happy if you widely circulate this. So shut your trap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGD...